Matorial language
Matoric | ||
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Period | until about 1839 | |
Formerly spoken in |
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ISO 639 -1 |
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ISO 639 -2 |
mis |
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ISO 639-3 |
mtm |
The matoric language is one of the Samoyed languages . Together with the Finno-Ugric languages, these form the Uralic language family .
Matorisch was spoken in the northern region of the Sajan Mountains in Siberia near the Mongolian border. The speakers lived in the large area of the Minusinsk region along the Yenisei to Lake Baikal .
Knowledge of the language comes from Russian and German philologists who visited the region in the 18th and 19th centuries. Matoric, like Selkupian and the extinct (old) Kamassian, belongs to the group of South Samoyed languages. Taiga and Karagass are named as dialects of Matoric, which some scholars regard as their own languages. The language had strong connections with the Turkic languages of the region and to a lesser extent with Mongolian languages .
Matorisch became extinct in the 1840s. The speakers are mainly absorbed in the Altai languages , especially Khakass and Tuvin .
literature
- Eugen Helimski: The matoric language: dictionary - basics of grammar - history of language (= Studia uralo-altaica , volume 41). University of Szeged, Szeged 1997, ISBN 96304818811 .
Web links
- Ethnological report
- Dictionary Matorisch-Englisch ( Memento from April 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive )